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A young boy is raped and murdered in Inwood Hill Park and the early evidence leads to a convicted sex offender who had recently been released from prison, but he is soon cleared after it becomes clear he is innocent of the crime. However, this does not stop the authorities from attempting to lock him up anyway. He ends up murdered on the steps of the courthouse by the father of the child, but its eventually revealed that two teenage boys, Mike and Jimmy, murdered him and they confess. They had learned of the sex offender from a website and began messing with him, but ended up kidnapping the boy as first a joke. Jimmy raped him (but claims he is not gay) and accidentally murdered him by snapping his neck with bike chains they previously took off his bike while trying to keep him quiet. While Mike shows a lot of remorse, Jimmy has none as he believed he "was a loser anyway".

This episode seems to be partly based on the Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb case. These two young men are commonly known as Leopold and Loeb, and were two wealthy University of Chicago students. They murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924, and were sentenced to life in prison. The duo was motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a perfect crime. (Source: Leopold and Loeb at Wikipedia)

Christopher James tells Olivia that her name comes from the Greek oliva, which he says means "olive tree". This is false. The name was invented by Shakespeare as either a female English version of the French Olivier, which was itself a French variant of the German Alfihar ("elf army"), or an English version of oliva, which was the Latin form of elaia, the original Greek word for "olive tree".

The packages of cookies on Munch's desk are a Canadian brand, President's Choice. Rene Balcer, longtime executive producer for the Law & Order franchise, is Canadian.

The famous Nintendo series Pokémon is mentioned during the episode, but it is mispronounced, using a short 'e' sound instead of a long 'e'.